The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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